Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

All America is much the same.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.

The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face

In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.